Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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This letter provides guidance on siblings using FMLA leave, as in loco parentis, and the need to provide parental care for a son or daughter 18 years or older.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-25 provides states with instructions for requesting continued workload-based administrative funding for CARES Act benefit programs. The programs covered under this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) include Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-12, Change 3 informs states of the discontinuation of the CWC 02-12 application in UI-ICON and provides an alternative method for paying states to communicate to the transferring state(s) an employer’s failure to timely or adequately respond to State Workforce Agencies’ (SWA) requests for information relating to a CWC.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 05-24 provides guidance to Employment and Training Administration (ETA) grant recipients and subrecipients on the implementation of OMB’s Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance, which goes into effect on October 1, 2024. The final guidance revises several parts of 2 CFR subtitle A, “OMB Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance” (formerly “OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements”). This includes revisions to 2 CFR part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards “Uniform Guidance.”
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 01-25 advises states of sequestration rules for FY 2025 to ensure State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) apply these rules to mandatory UI programs.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) 21-24 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from October 1 – December 31, 2024 (first quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 19-24 provides states with information about preliminary FY 2025 UI State Administration base resource planning targets, with general guidelines for resource planning, and an explanation of how the U.S. Department of Labor (Department) allocates base resources among the states.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 17-24 announces the availability of additional funding to cover ongoing administrative costs related to reporting, data retention, audit-related and oversight activities, efforts to detect, establish and recover overpayments, and financial reconciliation efforts associated with the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), and Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) programs and the provisions of Section 2105 of the CARES Act for Temporary Full Federal Funding of the First week of Compensable Regular Unemployment for States with No Waiting Week (Section 2105).
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 03-24 transmits Veterans Program Letter (VPL) 05-24, Jobs for Veterans State Grants Staff Roles and Responsibilities, and Coordination with Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Services to Veterans, jointly developed by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS). VPL 05-24 clarifies JVSG statutory duties, roles, and responsibilities such staff are expected to perform and discusses relationship between JVSG and other programs within the workforce system. Additionally, the guidance is designed to update state workforce professionals about AJC staff roles with JVSG. It emphasizes statutory duties and describes staffing flexibilities available to states to meet their JVSG responsibilities while maximizing the integration of services and collaboration of partners in the AJCs.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 02-24 provides guidance to recipients of the Department of Labor’s (Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending, specified in Appendix I: Eligible Applicants.
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